The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-08
THE BASEBALL WORLD.
ARRIVAL OF wIKGREFFE, THE
CRACK TwIRLER.
Improvements Being Made at the
Rark-Reporters I'm Luck
General Brevitfes.

800 PAeSatA AOA WV
Memphis club, arrived yesterday.
Manager sneed had him ont practic-
ing yesterday and Is enthusiastic over
him. He has surprising delivery and
remarkable speed. In size and sp-
pesrence he ls somewhat larger, but Ia
other respects is very mach like
Kaouf. His position in the box is
exactly similar to that OF the Quaker
boy when man is on first base, and
the new rules suit his style admirably.
He halls from Litct field, Ill.
There are now four Of the Memphis
team in the city-namely, Sneed, An
dtews, b ack aud Wiegrtfie-and the
others will DO coming 10 almost daily.
Manager 6need is GA the lookout
for another catcher. He has only
two.
A new system of advertising will he
adopted during the coming season. In
place Of the artistic hangers placed in
the show windows, the management
will make an fort to secure space ex-
tenfing ecross IA entire page in the
newspapers, Just as in Cincinnati and
Nashville. The steamers on street
cars and at corners Will be- continued
Newspaper reporters are to be hand
som~ly treated at the park during the
coming season. A private box, in
which no outsider but the telegraph
operator is 10 be admitted, is being
prepared for them, containing two
desks.
manager Sneed says within fifteen
days the park in this city will be the
pretties; in the South. The manage
msnt is having it ddeD nth Ber-
muia graes and in other ways beauti-
flying it, go
The exhibition season opens here On
the 2lst instant with the Syracuse
combustion. Chicago comes on the
5th OF April.
The Nashville Union OF yesterday
says: Jack Sneed was the secretary Of
the recent schedule meeting in New
Orleans, and 1t was fearful to see the
great beads Of perspirstion roll from
his right field brow 40 he wrestled
with schedule alter schedule only to
have to throw it away. When he fin
ished up the one which was agreed
upon, snd the documents wsre duly
signed, he threw up both hands and
sud Tor home" amid the plaudits Of
ais equally tired colsborers. II was
truly trying spectacle.
Billy Taylor says: II am done.
You can gamble on it,"
Manager Bradley, of Nashville, says:
eve are quietly resting on our oars.
Wen be resting on Memphis's ears in
a few weeks"
President Morrow signs thusly:
"Oh, for rest in some secluded dell,
where newspaper men are never seen
end baseball players are all In h ali
fax"
AbDer Powell is to captain the New
Orleans aggregation.
TIE twiTleis have at last struck th sir
Jonah in the new rules.
Mike Kelly will not go to Europe.
The Gro owned heads are inconsolsble.
Who said there was not enough
playeraeA 90 around? The woods are
sill fuIiSbi 'em.
Tom Gillen spraiued his wrist in ex-
ercising, and will not be south with
the Detrsits.
Billy Geies is hitting the ball right
and left at New Ofleans. Billy likee
the new rules.
The New O'lesns tesm is not very
strong in the field, but It's batting quail
itles are unques toned.
If that schedule doesn't prove to be
the most profitable ever adopted in
the Southern League, then all signs g
for naught.
II is to be hoped that the bill taxing
baseball ubs, whicn was introduced
in the Legislature, will not be passed
The Chsrleston team is certainly
going to make desperate fight for the
pennant. That team is going to fool
the boys, sure.
Jack Seed secured Weigreffe, the
crack twlrler, after repeated efforts
had been m de to sign him by Colds
by, Won der Abe and others.
President Morrow displayed good
judgment when he appointed George
Burbridge on the staff of umpire.
George has the happy knack of always
keeping straight and attending 10 bust.
mes, aud when he once makes de.
cision the nerve is there to uphold it
There will be few stronger outfields
than Hogan, Diestel aud Clinton, Of
the Nashville club. That ia where
most balls will 60 this sesson, under